Aitor Karanka will cap his first full season in English football with a trip to Wembley after guiding Middlesbrough into the Championship play-off final with a resounding victory over Brentford.
Goals from Lee Tomlin, Kike and man of the match Albert Adomah a secured 3-0 semi-final, second-leg victory in front of a crowd of 33,266 at the Riverside Stadium to extend the Teessiders' aggregate advantage to 5-1 as the Bees suffered play-off heartache for the eighth time.
Karanka will now take his team to Wembley on May 25 - the first time they will have visited English football's headquarters since the 1998 League Cup final - for a showdown with either Norwich or Ipswich and the prospect of a return to the Barclays Premier League after a six-year absence.